Purchase a copy for yourself here! Black Leopard Red Wolf is the most recent novel from Jamaican author Marlon James, and the follow up to his Man Booker Prize-winning 2014 novel, A Brief History of Seven Killings. James has stated that this novel is the first in his Dark Star trilogy, which will be a… Continue reading Black Leopard Red Wolf by Marlon James
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Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Kiley Reid’s debut novel, Such a Fun Age, is concerned with the rise of “woke” culture, a self obsessive tendency of privileged white liberals to perform progressive ideals of racial and gender equality. The novel is told from the perspectives of two women, one of whom is Alix, a… Continue reading Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais
Purchase a copy for yourself here! If You Want to Make God Laugh is Bianca Marais’ sophomore novel, and it is an exploration of three South African women negotiating motherhood and trauma, whose lives interact in a variety of explosive ways. The novel begins with Zodwa, a seventeen year old girl living in an impoverished… Continue reading If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais
I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Emily Nussbaum is a critic who had been writing about television as an art form years before virtually anyone else considered it one, when it was still a point of pride for intellectuals to not have a TV set in their home. Her recent essay collection, I Like to… Continue reading I Like to Watch by Emily Nussbaum
The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
Purchase a copy for yourself here! The Friend is the most recent novel by the writer Sigrid Nunez, which despite being her eighth novel, is responsible for catapulting her into the wider literary canon. The novel is told from the perspective of an aging writer and teacher, our narrator, who has just lost a beloved… Continue reading The Friend by Sigrid Nunez
The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
Purchase a copy for yourself here! The Ugly American is widely considered to be a landmark text in American political science, one that altered the face of American diplomacy after its publication in 1958. The novel was a smash-hit when it was first published, and eventually turned into a film starring Marlon Brando in 1963.… Continue reading The Ugly American by William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
Purchase a copy for yourself here! The story of war has always been a masculine story, but this was not true for Ethiopia and it has never been that way in any form of struggle. This is a line from the Author’s Note of Maaza Mengiste’s second novel, The Shadow King. The novel is a… Continue reading The Shadow King by Maaza Mengiste
The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Purchase a copy for yourself here! The Topeka School is the third novel from American poet and author Ben Lerner, the culmination of a literary trilogy of the auto fiction genre. Lerner gives his protagonist, Adam Gordon, a personal history that matches his own: a childhood in Topeka, Kansas, where Lerner was raised by two… Continue reading The Topeka School by Ben Lerner
Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Salman Rushdie’s latest novel, Quichotte, is a Cervantes adaptation for the Trump and Brexit age. The novel is a pastiche quest story that plays out within a road movie universe populated by pop culture references. The novel’s protagonist is Quichotte, a TV-obsessed traveling pharmaceutical salesman, who in his advanced… Continue reading Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
Purchase a copy for yourself here! Angie Kim’s debut novel, Miracle Creek, is a richly textured thought experiment disguised as a courtroom drama. The novel begins with the explosions of a hyperbaric oxygen therapy chamber (HBOT), causing the death of two of its six occupants. HBOT is a somewhat controversial method of treating a variety… Continue reading Miracle Creek by Angie Kim